The Last Wunderkammer : Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Sense Of Wonder

In his description of the magnificent Vanderbilt collection located on Fifth Avenue in New York, Earl Shinn pointed out the presence of a medieval Venetian ivory casket in the Japanese parlor. Wonder serves as the guiding principle for the display of objects selected according to their provenance and for their very different chronologies. In this context, eclecticism concerns more than a mere display of heterogeneous artifacts, it is a way to create resplendent interiors and to allow visitors sink into a sense of wonder. This chapter reconsiders the key concepts of curiosity and eclecticism, not just as a fashion or as display modes, but as new steps in the long-term history of the Wunderkammer.

scholarly journals Global History, Area studies, and the Idea of Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Stanziani
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Global History ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Image Caption

In most history departments on the European continent Europe is History while the history of other regions only can be described as “area studies.” This paper investigates the long-term origins of these attitudes, since Humanism and the Enlightenment, down to Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries forms of history writing. It finally suggests to overcome area studies and decentralise social sciences.   Image Caption: Giovanni Maria Cassini, Globo terrestre, in Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni (Rome, 1790). © 2000 by Cartography Associates, under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-42
Author(s):  
JOHN M. CRAIG
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
New York ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Systemic Lupus ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
History Of ◽  
Laboratory Examinations

This small but easily read book is a carefully documented summary of the clinical, laboratory and necropsy experience at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 200 cases of systemic lupus erythematosus during a 20-year period. The disease process is presented according to manifestations in individual organs and laboratory examinations. This approach emphasizes the role of the disease as one of the "great imitators" of medicine, along with syphilis, tuberculosis and malaria. Of great value are the careful observations and long-term follow-up of these patients, which gives a genuine picture of the natural history of the disease, one of the stated aims of the author.

Epilogue: New York’s Culture Industries in the Twilight of Fordism

2020 ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Shannan Clark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Culture Industries ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Transitional Phase

The book’s epilogue surveys how the economic dislocations of the 1970s and 1980s resulted in substantial long-term changes for both America’s culture of consumer capitalism and for those who labored in New York to produce it. Inflation and unemployment hobbled the economy, heralding a new age of rising inequality. This crisis in mass purchasing power coincided with the fracturing of the mass market for consumer goods that advertisers and the media had conjured into existence since the turn of the twentieth century. In addition, urban decline, financialization, and an increased hostility to unions by employers and the government added to the difficulties and challenges that culture workers in New York’s television, newspaper, advertising, and book publishing sectors encountered during this transitional phase in the history of consumer capitalism and the history of white-collar labor.

Neoliberal Times

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Krinsky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the “rollout” of neoliberalism’s program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study of municipal employee labor relations in New York City to examine the temporality of neoliberal transition. It acknowledges that actual neoliberalism involves a mix of policies that depart from its market-liberal ideal type and that include elements of statist, communitarian, and/or corporatist policies. Thus the article engages a puzzle: if paths to neoliberalism are not always sudden and are populated by policies that are not necessarily driven by neoliberal assumptions, how should we understand what neoliberalism is and how it develops? The article traces the history of municipal labor relations from the 1950s through the present to show that the transition to neoliberalism was characterized by the transition from a contentious corporatism that took shape in the 1950s and went through a neocorporatism forged in the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and that kept corporatist institutions in place while undermining their social power and laying the groundwork for neoliberal policies from the 1990s forward. The article shows how longer-term trajectories and shorter-term crises intertwine to produce a neoliberalism better understood as a repertoire of governance than as an undifferentiated set of policy preferences for market mechanisms.

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